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Born in Chios and studied at the school of Fine Arts in Athens painting and printmaking. In 1995 under Erasmus program, he went to Edinburgh college of Art and in the year 2000 he was awarded a master degree in Visual Communication from Kent University (Kent Institute of Art & Design). He has made 17 solo shows and participated in various group shows locally and internationally. He was chosen to participate in Biennale of Sarajevo, Tel-Aviv, Prague, Athens and Istanbul. He founded with other artists the non-profit platform Lo & Behold which was active for a decade till about 2018. From 2002 to 2018 he teaches at University of West Attica and in 2012 – 13 he was invited to teach as visiting professor in Konkuk University Korea. Since 2022 he holds a position of assistant professor at School of Fine Arts, department of Fine Arts and Art sciences, at University of Ioannina.

Selected solo shows

2012   New Golden Era, Tint gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece (with Ioannis Theodoropoulos)
2009   Glorious days, Alpha Delta gallery, Athens, Greece
2008   Disintegrated land, Jam Jar gallery, Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE (with Kostas Christopoulos)
2007   Gallery Trophy, Alpha Delta gallery, Athens, Greece
Non places, Tint gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
2005   The first universe (mapping my house series), Alpha Delta gallery, Athens, Greece

 

Selected group shows

2013

 


 

Thinking Media III, Chung Mu Art Hall gallery, Seoul, Korea.
Drawing Now Paris, (Le Salon Du Dessin Contemporain), Tint gallery, Carousel Du Louvre, Drawing Now I video, curated by Brett Litman, Paris, France.
Art Athina International Contemporary Art Fair 2013, AD gallery, Art Athina Contemporaries:Paradise Lost, curated by Artemis Potamianou, Athens, Greece.

2012

 

 
Thinking Media II,
Seoul Art Center, Gongpyeong gallery, Seoul, Korea.
Sanatorio project 2,
The Athens University Museum, Athens, Greece.
art-A, Topographies,
Municipal gallery of Arta, Arta, Greece.
Artists for Athens Pride IV,
The Breeder gallery, Athens, Greece.
Lost in Athens
, CAMP (Contemporary Art Meeting Point), Athens, Greece.

2011
 

The Symptom of the site, curated by The Symptom projects, Amfissa, Greece.
Pigs Case, Supermarket Art Fair, Lo and Behold, Stockholm, Sweden
Sanatorio project, Sanatorio Pilio, Volos, Greece.
Contemporary Istanbul, AD gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Original Certified Copy, Tint gallery / 50-1 gallery, Thessaloniki / Limassol, Greece / Cyprus

2010


Battlefield, The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
The vitrina project, Open Space studio, Athens, Greece
Summer 10 * 10 artists, Elika Gallery, Athens, Greece
Visual dialogues. Onassis Cultural Centre. The action took place in parallel with Athens Dialogues, an international symposium.
Sound installation under the title "politics" at Ermou pedestrian zone from Thision to Piraeus street. Athens, Greece

2009   Preview Berlin, contemporary Art fair, Tint gallery, Berlin, Germany
Paint - id
, Contemporary painting in Greece, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, Greece
Naughtiness, Margaris Foundation-Beltsios collection, Amfilochia, Greece

2008
 

What is new and interesting? AD gallery, Athens, Greece
Conceptual obssesion-Obssesive conceptualism, Tint gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
Athensville
, Art Athina, Helexpo, Athens, Greece
Games without frontiers
, Zoumboulaki gallery, Athens, Greece

2007   nightcomers project, 10th Istanbul biennial, Turkey
zona 9, international video art festival, Chile

2006   drawing screen, museum of cinema, gallery Tint, Thessaloniki, Greece
what remains is future, old Arsakeio, Patra, Greece
an outing, Beltsios collection, Matsopoulos roller, Trikala, Greece
Positive charges, project MRI, State Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, Greece

2005   Action field Kodra, 5th conjectural meeting, protaseis-version IV: 935 sq meters, Thessaloniki, Greece

2004   Up_Cut: Artist’s run group show, Athens, Greece
Video Zone 2: The 2nd International Video Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel
Action field Kodra, 4th conjectural meeting, Thessaloniki, Greece
Athens by Art, Thisseion pedestrian zone, Athens, Greece

2003   So much… so great…, Larissa Contemporary Art Centre, Larissa, Greece
Transmission member show ’03, Transmission gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Peripheries become the center, Prague Biennale 1, Prague National Gallery, Czech Republic

2002   Caos & Comunicazione, Comune di Parma, Archivio Giovani Artisti, Fondazione di Parma, Italy
Below 54, cinefeel: UK, Audiovisual lounge 2002, London, UK

2001   medi@terra _01, Athens-Lavrion-Sofia-Belgrade-Maribor-Osnabruck-Frankfurt
Chaos and Communication, Biennale of Young Artists, Serajevo, Bosnia
Established, Brighton Media Centre, UK

 

He lives and works in Athens and Ioannina, Greece. A number of artworks belong to National Gallery Athens, Momus Thessaloniki, private collections and Public Galleries. Art installations can be viewed at hotel 21, Periscope and Intercontinental in Athens.

 

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